Tenille Campbell (Dani Van Steelandt)

Poet Tenille Campbell and the University of Regina Press were the big winners at this year’s Saskatchewan Book Awards, which took place April 28 in Regina.

Campbell’s debut poetry collection, #IndianLovePoems (Signature Editions), received two awards, as did breathing at dusk by Beth Goobie (Coteau Books). The University of Regina Press swept all three publishers’ awards, and picked up a scholarly writing prize for Kathleen Carlisle’s Fiery Joe: The Maverick Who Lit Up the West.

Awards for Writers

Regina Public Library Book of the Year Award
Extended Families by Ven Begamudré (Coteau Books)

Muslims for Peace and Justice Fiction Award
Glass Beads by Dawn Dumont (Thistledown Press)

University of Saskatchewan Non-Fiction Award
Islands of Grass by Trevor Herriot; Branimir Gjetvaj, photog. (Coteau)

Rasmussen, Rasmussen & Charowsky Indigenous Peoples’ Writing Award
#IndianLovePoems by Tenille K. Campbell (Signature Editions)

O’Reilly Insurance and The Co-operators First Book Award
#IndianLovePoems by Tenille K. Campbell (Signature)

Saskatchewan Arts Board Poetry Award
breathing at dusk by Beth Goobie (Coteau Books)

Children’s Literature Award
When the Trees Crackle with Cold by Bernice Johnson-Laxdal and Miriam Körner (Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing)

City of Saskatoon and Public Library Saskatoon Book Award
breathing at dusk by Beth Goobie (Coteau)

City of Regina Book Award
Islands of Grass by Trevor Herriot (photographs by Branimir Gjetvaj) (Coteau)

Jennifer Welsh Scholarly Writing Award
Fiery Joe: The Maverick Who Lit Up the West by Kathleen Carlisle (University of Regina Press)

Publishers’ awards

Ministry of Parks, Culture and Sport Publishing Award
University of Regina Press, Claiming Anishinaabe by Lynn Gehl

Publishing in Education Award
University of Regina Press, Speaking in Cod Tongues by Lenore Newman

Saskatoon Public Library Indigenous Peoples’ Publishing Award
University of Regina Press, Aaniiih/Gros Ventre Stories, compiled and edited by Terry Brockie and Andrew Cowell